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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: May 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Wednesday, May 31, 2006. May's flowers from my home to yours. Posted by javaseeker at 1:23 AM. Links to this post. Is it worth it? I'll have homegrown tomatoes almost all year! Think for a minute. Long tirades of tomato death-threats by my wife "I'm gonna drag them tomatoes outside and let them freeze to death, then I'm gonna burn them to kingdom come! Made this experiment a bit stressful. Posted by javaseeker at 12:42 AM.
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: October 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. And the eggs of aphids. Hmmm. Eggs of aphids. Welcome Kinglets! All hail the Kinglets! Ps During the summer this year, those same mimosa trees behind the house were crawling with yellow jackets for weeks on end. Probably hundreds of them. Looking up the diet of the common yellow jacket, I discovered they love scale insects and the honeydew from aphids. Posted by javaseeker at 2:15 AM. Whodini goes...
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: August 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Monday, August 21, 2006. Abundant summer, abundant work. It's small harvests like this that pull me closer to the brink. Weakens the resolve and excitement of creating life in one's own soil. Fortunately, with a little effort, we receive reminders of the abundant pleasures in the life we seek. Posted by javaseeker at 11:10 PM. Links to this post. Ooltewah, Tennessee, United States. View my complete profile. Fig, brown turkey.
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: April 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Tuesday, April 25, 2006. Posted by javaseeker at 12:55 PM. Links to this post. Our front yard is littered with fallen blossoms from this trumpet creeper vine nestled in an oak tree. The blossoms you see here are 25 to 30 feet off the ground. Posted by javaseeker at 12:10 PM. Links to this post. Friday, April 21, 2006. Hippy potatoes growing up. For those of you who remember my posting about the hippy purple potato. Most peopl...
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: March 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Wednesday, March 29, 2006. 1 Stuff one pint jar with fresh dandelion blossoms. 2 Pour boiling water over blossoms, filling the jar. Let steep overnight. 3 Strain out blossoms, pour into pan, add 1 1/2 cups of sugar, bring to boil. 4 Simmer to thickness you want, pour back into jar and seal. It's a great match for lemon balm and mint tea. Posted by javaseeker at 1:58 AM. Links to this post. Monday, March 27, 2006. This Maiskij...
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: January 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Out of the frozen earth below,. Out of the melting of the snow,. No flower, but a film, I push to light;. No stem, no bud, yet I have burst. The bars of winter, I am the first,. O Sun, to greet thee out of the night! Bare are the branches, cold is the air,. Yet it is fire at the heart I bear,. I come, a flame that is fed by none:. The summer hath blossoms for her delight,. Till a sunbeam dissolve it...
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: July 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Sunday, July 16, 2006. Summer bliss-I'll write later. Posted by javaseeker at 1:53 PM. Links to this post. Ooltewah, Tennessee, United States. View my complete profile. Blueberry, early rabbiteye. Blueberry, wild high bush. Blueberry, wild low bush. Fig, brown turkey. Belize, the zoo. Where have you been? Kohlrabis for the pickin. Whodini goes on vacation. Oysters and oysters and oysters and oyst.
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: February 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Saturday, February 25, 2006. Visa Card and The American Dream. Actually made more money than me. Posted by javaseeker at 11:56 PM. Links to this post. Posted by javaseeker at 2:56 AM. Links to this post. Friday, February 24, 2006. Snowy range mountains '99. Thursday evening, 9/9/1999. The grayness of the sameness in 11am rise to 11pm work has tainted me. How can I return to that boringness again? Links to this post. My Mrs...
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: June 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Sunday, June 25, 2006. Here is a Waltham butternut squash off a plant from my mother. She had given me a few of her plants, due to the highly contageous I-got-too-many-plants-for-my-garden-britches virus she was infected with this spring. Can't wait for Becca's butternut bisque this winter. Posted by javaseeker at 3:03 PM. Links to this post. Monday, June 19, 2006. Our very second tomato. Posted by javaseeker at 5:59 PM.
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WhiteOak Mtn Journal: September 2006
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In search of self-sufficiency, good living, and harmony with the natural world. Saturday, September 30, 2006. Posted by javaseeker at 1:26 AM. Links to this post. Saturday, September 23, 2006. Some gifts are better than others. For a gift- not even for a holiday or birthday- that means something. My mother passed on some extra butternut squash plants. My sister gave me one heirloom violetta sweet potato plant. Here is the first potato I dug up:. Beautiful, isn't it? Posted by javaseeker at 3:06 PM. I pla...
